Rocketed to Earth as an infant from the doomed planet Krypton, Kal-El was adopted by the loving Kent family and raised in America's heartland as Clark Kent. Using his immense solar-fueled powers, he became Superman to defend mankind against all manner of threats while championing truth, justice and the American way!

I read it when it was new, and like G-Man, I was a sucker and bought every cover and bagged and boarded them. Oh well, gifts for the children/grandchildren I suppose.

And I agree with Bertron. The whole "I wasn't really dead the way humans understand it" thing was such a big cop-out. Of all the characters of the DCU who could cheat death, why wouldn't it be Superman? Then, the whole backstory later created for Doomsday that he has actually come back to life numerous times over hundred (thousands?) of years is just even more incongruous. (And don't get me started on Darkseid's army of Doomsdays he unleashed on Paradise Island).

I was ok with Doomsday being created, but some of the stuff they've done since his death during his fight with Supes has just been a thinly veiled plot to extort more money from the unwashed masses. Either that, or an editorial scapegoat. "We need a powerful monster for this story. One's who widely feared, yet his overall contribution to this story's continuity will be essentially nil. I know, let's use Doomsday again!"

"I thought the art work was horrible. I pulled my copy of the box a couple months back and was astounded."

That happens quite a lot in retrospect. There are so many volumes I have fond memories of, but when I pull it back out years later I think, "Did I really think this art was good?" I mean, I liked Liefeld stuff during his New Mutants/X-Force days, but now looking back..............(shudders)

Why did they create a new character to take him out? Lex should have been the one to do it or even better, since they brought back the original Zod anyway, they could of had him do it, Doomsdays never really been fleshed out as a character. (My opinion)

I had a copy of that issue, but when we moved to our current place, it got lost (that's the official report, extra-officially, I think one of the movin'-guys stole it!). Anyway, I was pretty young by then (like 8 years old) so it's a little traumatizing to watch how one of your favorite heroes die (my brother bought it to me 'coz he tought it wouldn't be that violent... WRONG!). Anyway, I actually won't miss that issue, even if eventually will cost a lot of money for collectors, I didn't like it at all!... well, I could have used that money!... DAMN IT!.